Hacker News: jen729w

New comment by jen729w in "Claude Opus 4.8"

jen729w — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:11:31 +0000

Half an hour in and I'm already thoroughly sick of "look I need to be honest with you here…"

Edit: OMG too much. Toooo much.

    Want me to:
    - (a) stop here and save honest memories + commit, or…

New comment by jen729w in "The Classic American Diner"

jen729w — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:42:38 +0000

Right. But how much of that 30% food cost is insurance that the farmer paid?

It's insurance all the way down.

New comment by jen729w in "The Classic American Diner"

jen729w — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:50:19 +0000

I'd love someone to build a tool that shows the price of that burger, say, and breaks it down to the input cost.

    Burger:    $5.00
    ----------------
    Meat:      $0.20
    Bun:       $0.05
    Staff:     $0.25
    Insurance: $4.50

New comment by jen729w in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

jen729w — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:45:22 +0000

Because the stock market won't care about that.

New comment by jen729w in "Cal.com is going closed source"

jen729w — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:05:27 +0000

I blocked the email. I use one-time addresses at Fastmail.

I meant that after step 3, I was never interested in hearing from the service again.

New comment by jen729w in "GPT-5.5"

jen729w — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:04:16 +0000

There's a false dichotomy here between 'deterministic creation' and 'vibing'.

I use Claude all day. It has written, under my close supervision¹, the majority of my new web app. As a result I estimate the process took 10x less time than had I not used Claude, and I estimate the code to be 5x better quality (as I am a frankly mediocre developer).

But I understand what the code does. It's just Astro and TypeScript. It's not magic. I understand the entire thing; not just 'the prompt that started it'.

¹I never fire-and-forget. I prompt-and-watch. Opus 4.7 still needs to be monitored.

MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be

jen729w — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:40:31 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/ipad_neo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872306

Points: 322

# Comments: 203

New comment by jen729w in "Cal.com is going closed source"

jen729w — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:53:46 +0000

1. Goes to site. Clicks appointment.tb.pro link in sidebar.

2. Gives email address.

3. Is told to join the waitlist.

4. Blocks email address given at 2.

Hardly a terrific experience.

New comment by jen729w in "I've sold out"

jen729w — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:46:36 +0000

Oh, catch yourself. Tell me you wouldn't do the same for your family.

I run a tiny thing that a lot of people like. Its licence is permissive: if I 'sold out', nobody who is using it today would have to change a damned thing.

And you know what? Call me if you wanna buy it. Because here's my priority list:

1. Looking after my family.

2. Looking after yours.

New comment by jen729w in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

jen729w — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:17:55 +0000

Tailscale, perhaps ironically in this context, has shown me the value of not caring about an IP address.

I used to. When I had a home network I'd carefully assign `10.52.1.x` where `x` was the periodic number corresponding to the machine name! (I write from `lutetium`.)

Now, with Tailscale's magic DNS – `lutetium` being all I need – why on Earth would I give a crap about an IP address? I've gone from being obsessed to truly not caring at all.

So, give me IPv6. Auto-assign everything! All I want is a name.

New comment by jen729w in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

jen729w — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:35:27 +0000

Those test failures are pre-existing. We're all done!

New comment by jen729w in "People Love to Work Hard"

jen729w — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:30:45 +0000

Nah, it's not that simple.

Work is an amazing place to bond with people, if you all enjoy the work and find value in it. I'm still friends with a bunch of folks I met in 2007 when we all managed the 3rd level infra for a bank. We meet for beers, we go to each other's houses, we're best men at each other's weddings. Just yesterday evening I inter-continentally called one of them for a catchup.

Can it be toxic? Of course! Is it always toxic? Don't be silly.

New comment by jen729w in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

jen729w — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:37:24 +0000

I remember the march in London. A staggering number of people. Makes a mockery of any modern-day ‘protest’.

Made not a jot of difference. In Tony went anyway. Shame.

New comment by jen729w in "The East India Company in Japan"

jen729w — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:52:04 +0000

This is a delightful historical fiction if you're into this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thousand_Autumns_of_Jacob_...

Also there's a museum. It's on my list!

https://www.niche-museums.com/59

New comment by jen729w in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jen729w — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:47:39 +0000

Sounds like you'll be spending your day making a better video! :-)

New comment by jen729w in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jen729w — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:17:54 +0000

You might misunderstand how ISO works on digital cameras. (I did.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWSvHBG7X0w

New comment by jen729w in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

jen729w — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:13:47 +0000

> They have to be honest about what they can offer for $200.

Isn't that exactly what they just did?

New comment by jen729w in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

jen729w — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:48:35 +0000

I can’t take an article seriously that starts:

> Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software

and then proceeds not to explain how it’s doing that to me, a Safari user.

Because, spoiler: it isn’t. Or, it might try to search, and fail, and nothing will be collected.

New comment by jen729w in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

jen729w — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:16:35 +0000

It's a ridiculous folly. I've already lost a well-constructed question because I accidentally tabbed into my pointless 'buddy'.

(Yes, I know I can turn it off. I have.)

New comment by jen729w in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

jen729w — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:15:04 +0000

Is it just me or do I not find the Claude Code application that fascinating?

I use it all day and love it. Don't get me wrong. But it's a terminal-based app that talks to an LLM and calls local functions. Ooookay…